100 Award-Winning Science Fair Projects. (Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest).By offering ides for well-organized science experiments that move students beyond basic procedures to understanding the implications of results, this book invokes critical thinking in a stimulating stim·u·late v. stim·u·lat·ed, stim·u·lat·ing, stim·u·lates v.tr. 1. To rouse to activity or heightened action, as by spurring or goading; excite. See Synonyms at provoke. 2. format. Experiment topics range from discovering how soap soap, a cleansing agent. It cleanses by lowering the surface tension of water, by emulsifying grease, and by absorbing dirt into the foam. Ancient peoples are believed to have employed wood ashes and water for washing and to have relieved the resulting removes dirt from a person's body to conceptualizing the universe by translating astronomical distances astronomical distance n. The distance from one celestial body to another, measured in light-years, parsecs, or astronomical units. into geographic metaphors. Originally published in hardcover in 2001. Sterling, 2002, 208 p., b&w illus., paperback, $14.95. |
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